360: Nitrogen Fixation Goes Eukaryotic

TWiM explains major implications of the link between plastic pollution and antimicrobial resistance, and the discovery of a new organelle, the nitrogen-fixing nitroplast.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson

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Links for this episode

• Plastic pollution and antimicrobial resistance (Appl Envir Micro)
• The great Pacific garbage patch (YouTube)
• Rumen microbiome (Nat Biotech)
• Nitrogen-fixing organelle in marine alga (Science)
• This cell just changed biology (YouTube)
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